Cezanne: Landscape into Art - Hardcover

Machotka, Pavel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300067011 ISBN 13: 9780300067019

Verlag: Yale University Press, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Pavel Machotka

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Reseña del editor:

This book presents a new perspective on Paul Cezanne, one of the towering figures of 19th-century art. Pavel Machotka has photographed the sites of Cezanne's landscape paintings - whenever possibe from the same spot and at the same time of day that Cezanne painted the scenes. Juxtaposing these colour photographs with reproductions of the paintings, he offers a range of evidence to investigate how the painter transformed nature into works of art. Machotka, himself an artist, moves from painting to painting, examining textures and surfaces, pictorial rhythms, and inflections of tone. As he analyzes Cezanne's treatment of individual sites, their transposition into forms and colours, and the artist's responsiveness to the demands of each composition, we begin to see Cezanne as he saw himself: not as an early Cubist but as a painter who explored his motif for its compositional potential and presented a parallel and faithful conception of it. Using colour to define form, while retaining hues that are anchored in reality, Cezanne achieved reconstructions rather than intellectual depictions like those of the Cubists.

Biografía del autor:

Pavel Machotka is Professor of Psychology and Art at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Über diese Auflage

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0300067011
• ISBN 13: 9780300067019
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 172